Two medical students were walking along the street when they saw an old man walking with his legs spread apart.

He was stiff-legged and walking slowly.

One student  said to his friend:

“I’m sure that poor old man has Peltry Syndrome. Those people walk just like that.”

The other student says:

“No, I don’t think so. The old man surely has Zovitzki Syndrome. He walks slowly and his legs are apart, just as we learned in class.”

Since they couldn’t agree they decided to ask the old man.

They approached him and one of the students said to him, “We’re medical students and couldn’t help but notice the way you walk, but we couldn’t agree on the syndrome you might have.  Could you tell us what it is?”

The old man said, “I’ll tell you, but first you tell me what you two fine medical students think.”

The first student said, “I think it’s Peltry Syndrome.”

The old man said, “You thought – but you are wrong.”

The other student said, “I think you have Zovitzki Syndrome.”

The old man said, “You thought – but you are wrong.”

So they asked him, “Well, old timer, what do you have?”

The old man said, “I thought it was GAS – but I was wrong, too!”

An Irishman was terribly overweight, so his doctor put him on a diet.

“I want you to eat regularly for 2 days, then skip a day, and repeat this procedure for 2 weeks. The next time I see you, you should have lost at least 5 pounds.

When the Irishman returned, he shocked the doctor by having lost nearly 60lbs!

“Why, that’s amazing!” the doctor said, “Did you follow my instructions?”

The Irishman nodded…”I’ll tell you though, by jaesuz, I t’aut I were going to drop dead on dat 3rd day.”

“From the hunger, you mean?” asked the doctor.

“No, from the f**kin’ skippin”

So I am going to work on a new template for the B&B Web site.

1. Thurston House – I like it for the layout, the important info is prominent. Blend of photos and illustration. Nice integration of blog.
2. Hilltop Manor – I like the overlay of the photo, over the rotating header image. I do not like anything “under the fold”.
3. Abbeymoore Manor – I like some of the elements of this. The bottom tertiary menu for brochure, weather, etc. Contact Page is good. The Video Gallery, Recent Reviews and Photo Galleries is nice.
4. 1825 Inn – Like the Mobile option.
5. Chanticleer Inn – Like the Specials slider up top.

Casey likes;

1. Queen Victoria – she likes the layout
2. Inn at Manor Hill
3. Chesterfield Inn

So as I have made everyone aware I am stressed out like a crazy man. Not sleeping properly, worried about everything.

Business is not great, but it could be worse. It will get better seasonally, this is just the worst time of year, at least since the recession hit.

We are trying to do a refinance that originally included the much talked about carriage house. Now taking a step back from that, we found out having the duplex made our cash-flow look so bad that the carriage house was not in question.

Through work with an Small Business Development Center, MBA, we formalized what we already knew, we needed to make more money. Primarily take advantage more of the summers (high season) and pump up weddings again (which have been down as we are always having babies in summer).

So with financing getting re-jigged it looks hopefully that we may build a Pavilion that will replace the carport (an eyesore and falling down anyway). This would help with wedding revenue and give the all important covered space for weddings taking weather somewhat out of the equation. We also will renovate the kitchen, get a catering license and hence become a one stop shop for wedding sup to 60 or so people. This would emulate our success with elope weddings, where we are quite successful.

We are also toying with the idea of still digging out the hill and putting an apartment under the Pavilion for more stable revenue.

So that is a lot of “if, ands, and buts”. We hope to have an answer on the financing in the next couple of weeks.

If we cannot do it all, it looks like doing what we can to modernize the kitchen and make it fir in with a big expensive house. Our Realtor has reminded us of what we already knew. Our kitchen barely was passable for what we paid for the place, but at its increased value people will expect a nicer kitchen.

Of course this leads on to nice things, like giving a friend a more permanent job, and the ultimate goal of spending December and January in Australia with my family.  It really is possible if all pans out!

So fingers crossed. thanks for reading our goals. Keep your fingers and toes crossed for us!

Well it is official. Six months of trying to get my cholesterol and other like measures correct has had little effect on my test results. So it seems it is mainly stress effecting most of these levels. Another death blow to Innkeeping, at least in its current configuration.

Upside is my blood pressure is not too bad. Still not great but better. Thank you yoga and a few less kilos/pounds.

Lets hope the refi works out and the duplex is gone in the next 60 days or less. then life may look more stress free.